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It was a hard-fought battle between Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri. One, the former, was the favourite of Argentina’s outgoing president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner while the other is a centre-right politician. On the evening of November 22, Argentines decided to turn the Kirchner page and vote in Mauricio Macri. A …

35 years ago, John Lennon was brutally assassinated by Mark David Chapman. Despite such a long time, the memory of the founder for some and co-founder for others of The Beatles is still alive in the hearts of many. A concert in his honour, organised by his wife Yoko Ono, …

The COP21 meeting in Paris has been going on for more than a week now, but unlike the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, the news filtering from this meeting has a note of optimism about it, even if agreements on finances are slow. What is marking out these talks is …

The victory of the French National Front at the Sunday’s elections – 28% of the votes – means that the National Front is no longer a joke party more concerned with spouting hatred. It was during the presidential elections in 2002 that the French National Front became prominent. Despite reaching …

Smoking, a habit so glamorized in Hollywood movies, is on a decline in the United States and in much of the western world. Less than 20 percent of Americans smoke. Campaigns led by groups such as Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) implanted in the United States but also in …

Late on Friday 13th, Paris suffered seven coordinated terrorist attacks. 129 people lost their lives. President François Hollande declared a state of emergency in the whole of France and shut down the Paris Underground. A wave of condolences fused around the world, from the Queen of Great Britain, to political …

Some say the term was coined to designate the heavy traffic that occurred the day after Thanksgiving in Philadelphia. Still, others say that Black Friday was coined to show the point at which retailers entered in the black, or in profit. What is sure is that Black Friday is the …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on World Diabetes Day, which took place yesterday, that diabetes is now a global epidemic killing over 5 million people every year. Such a death toll has gotten the World Health Organisation in collaboration with the International Diabetes Federation to develop a campaign on …

Spike Lee, for that is him the real enfant terrible of Hollywood, spoke out yesterday about the pervading racism in Hollywood. “It is easier to be President of the United States as a Black person than be the head of a studio,” he said. He repeated that sentence twice before …

Where same-sex relationships are concerned, the law, if not mentalities seem to be changing in the United States. Last week, a Utah judge who had previously made a ruling to have a 9-month-old baby girl removed from her foster parents rescinded the order amid protests. The fact that the protests …